Mike has spent 30 years at HP in development, product management and latterly, product marketing.
Mike's team is responsible for marketing cross-IT solutions for HP Software including cloud, application transformation, and converged infrastructure.

Given my experience, I am all for allowing patients to control their own information, test results, charts...after all, they care about it a lot more about them than the medical bureaucracy....participation should be opt-in with a release. Not everyone would be capable of maintaining their own records. For them, a tighly regulated and controlled medical establishment is the answer - sort of what we have.

EHRs will only be as good as the folks who populate them with information....but Gary's point is a good one. If they can be called up instantly anywhere in the world, there's huge advantages when critical and immediate treatment is the answer.

Given my experience, I am all for allowing patients to control their own information, test results, charts...after all, they care about it a lot more about them than the medical bureaucracy....it should be opt in with a release. Not everyone would be capable of maintaining their own records. For them, a tighly regulated and controlled medical establishment is the answer - sort of what we have.

EHRs will only be as good as the folks who populate them with information....but Gary's point is a good one. If they can be called up instantly anywhere in the world, there's huge advantages when critical and immediate treatment is the answer.

The notion of smart phone infrastructure is fascinating. Smartphones with 5-inch displays are closing in on tablets with 7-inch displays. And shipments tell the story...my sense is that smartphones outselling PCs 2:1 will happen much sooner than 2016. General purpose desktops will go away. And it's an open question whether Windows 8 can grow the ultrabook and hybrid notebook/tablet market. As many pundits have pointed out, Apple's success is not so much the hardware as it is the "integrated experience." Android is catching up, but let's face it: Android's strength is on smartphones.

This stuff should all be online and secure...accessible by the patient and even controlled by patients who wish that responsibility (I do given how lax my docs have been with my records).

Another issue is HIPAA here in the U.S. Had it not been for some poor soul violating my privacy rights, a key image disk of mine would have been lost forever. And much of the reason for extreme privacy mandated by HIPAA away goes under the Affordable Care Act. That's because healthcare insurers cannot refuse people due to pre-existing conditions or drop them during expensive ilnesses. Much of HIPAA, which was supposed to lay the protectional foundation for EHRs, has turned out to be a headache for medicine and patients. Yes, we need privacy protections, but not to the extreme extent that HIPAA mandated. In fact, I wonder now if HIPAA is an impediment to EHR adoption.

“I want to do private cloud because I want to be more agile and because I want to be much more efficient at IT operations”.

Um. Private cloud will most certainly help you with the first objective – it will stand up development, test and production environments (i.e. server/storage/network and middleware and dev, test and production applications) much more quickly. And it will “cut IT out the loop” allowing users to have their requests actioned without humans holding up the process.

We in HP Software have created a new HP Software Cloud presentation. I"ve posted two versions. The first has a voiceover (only about 10 minutes). The second is a PDF created from showing the slides and the notes I created for each slide.

I was explaining to my teenage kids the other day what I did. I talked about how our
software products ensured that IT infrastructure was reliable. Blank look.
"What is IT infrastructure?", they asked. I said, "it's like the
power or water or sewage".

Below is a
(cut down) transcript of an interview with Erik Frieberg, VP of marketing for
HP's software products for IT Operations. The interview was conducted by Anne
Taylor, managing editor for IDG Enterprise. The full interview can be found here.